...This ends up making the learning feel quite unstructured and ad hoc. By far the most effective way was by slowly introducing the fundamentals of the language by reading through go by example, exploring them with examples and discussing them as a group. This was a more interactive approach than "read chapter x for homework". Over time the team gained a solid foundation of the grammar of the language so we could then start to build systems. This is for people who are interested in picking up Go and/or people who already know some Go, but want to explore testing more.